Fiona Shaw ( Bad Sisters, Killing Eve ) has been tapped as a series regular in the upcoming second season of the Apple TV+ ‘s legal thriller Presumed Innocent . She joins lead Rachel Brosnahan and fellow series regulars Matthew Rhys, Jack Reynor and Courtney B. Vance.
The anthology series’ second installment is inspired by Dissection of a Murder , the debut legal thriller novel by Jo Murray. It centers on an Leila (Brosnahan), an ambitious defense attorney who takes on a high-profile case. Vance plays Leila’s boss at the law firm; Shaw plays a partner at the firm and Leila’s second chair; Rhys plays Leila’s husband, the prosecutor on the case; and Reynor plays her client, the defendant.
Led by Jake Gyllenhaal, Season 1, inspired by Scott Turow’s courtroom thriller of the same